Racial Justice Resources for Families

A Resource List for Talking With Children About Race and Racial Justice

Compiled by Debbie Gline Allen, Minister of Faith Formation

Articles for Parents

• Anti-Racism for Kids: An Age-By-Age Guide to Fighting Hate

• Beyond the Hashtag: How To Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life

• How To Be Anti-Racist: Speak Out in Your Own Circles (includes examples of microagressions)

• How White Parents Can Talk to Their Kids About Race

• It's Not a Multi-Cultural Church If...

• Talking with Children About Racism, Police Brutality, and Protests

• Teaching Young Children About Race

• Ten Steps for Reviewing Children's Books on Racism

• They're Not Too Young to Talk About Race (age chart)

• When Christians Won't Say #BlackLivesMatter

• White Supremacy and Anti-Blackness: A Covert and Overt Beast (includes an overt & covert white supremacy chart)

• Your 5-Year-Old is Already Racially Biased - Here's What You Can Do About It

• Guide for Parents of Asian-American Adolescents

• How Parents Can Support Kids Through (and Beyond) the Latest Wave of Anti-Asian American Violence from CNN

• How To Start Conversations About Anti-Asian Racism with Your Family an NPR interview with Nicole Chung and Christine Koh

• How To Talk to Kids About Anti-Asian Violence

Video

• 21 Anti-Racism Videos to Share with Kids from We Are Teachers

Books

• A comprehensive list of books for all ages from St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School in Washington, D.C.

• Black Lives Matter Instructional Library - read-aloud video links - 30 books in English, 6 in Spanish, curated by Phoebe Defino 

• Eyes That Kiss In the Corners by Joanna Ho

• Your Name Is A Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Websites

• Embrace Race

• KidCo: Miss Anna Talks to Kids About Racism (includes free discussion/activity downloads for parents & families)

• National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian): Talking About Race

• Raising Race Conscious Children

• Social Justice Books

• Learning for Justice 

• About Junteenth (UCC)

• Critical Race Theory (UCC)

Racially Diverse-Owned Businesses

• Black-Owned​ - 181 places to start